2011 California Code
Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 7. GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS [16000 - 18001]
CHAPTER 1. Contracts in Restraint of Trade
Section 16602


CA Bus & Prof Code § 16602 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

(a) Any partner may, upon or in anticipation of any of the circumstances described in subdivision (b), agree that he or she will not carry on a similar business within a specified geographic area where the partnership business has been transacted, so long as any other member of the partnership, or any person deriving title to the business or its goodwill from any such other member of the partnership, carries on a like business therein.

(b) Subdivision (a) applies to either of the following circumstances:

(1) A dissolution of the partnership.

(2) Dissociation of the partner from the partnership.

(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 179, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.)

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